Stepped into his first gym at 50!!!!

I'm nearly 49, so I will start my come back 1 year sooner than he did.

For today,  this 80 year old man is my hero!





Any doubts!?!?!

When you drink too much coffee

After being off of coffee and all caffeine products for a month now, I drank one cup before going to work in anticipation of a busy night.  However, when I arrived I was informed that I was sitting one on one with a patient.  At first it was great, we walked down to the end of the hall and watched the sun go down.  Then we went back to her room, the nurse came in and gave her night meds to her and she promptly went to sleep.

This was me all night long while my patient slept.  NO MORE COFFEE FOR ME!

A peaceful day

All my new and happy babies.  I had a great day repotting and prepping.  I will be filling in the base of my larger plants with the ground covers.  I'm excited!  Can't hardly wait. 

This is all part of living in the Energy Enhancers. Plus they are a joy to look at, especially in our small apartment.

Hope your days are filled with much joy and healing today.

                   

This morning

I enjoyed hiking around the Red Rocks park just west of Denver this morning.  I was on a hunt for some red shale for a plant project I want to do.  Cooper (my dog) and I set out at about 6am and headed west towards Red Rocks Trail.  It was a beautiful morning and the Red Rocks glistened in the light of the sun.

I started with an empty back pack on my way in then walked out with a very heavy back pack full of red shale rocks.  It was like training.  lol.  It was very beautiful though and Cooper enjoyed our walk. 

I was also able to dig up some wild yucca from the open fields nearby.  They are a pretty silvery green but very pokey.  I will let their ends dry out for a couple of days and then plant with my other cactus outside on my balcony.  I'm excited.  I will post pictures of that and the other plant project once I'm finished.

I've had a great few days off of work being busy with all our plants.  I've propagated my pathos for the first time ever and I'm attempting to create a real bushy/jungly effect under my Palm plants.  I will keep  you updated as things progress.  Should be fun!

I hope each of you are having a wonderful Friday and a very blessed and healing weekend.  I'll be back to working.

Enjoyed Thursday 8/24

Aloha Everyone,

I hope you enjoyed the posts about positive affirmation as well as the Mindset Guru with John Greenidge. 

Yesterday, as part of my journey to great health and ultimate wellness I spent the day with my dog Cooper out in nature and reflected on everything I've been reading in school and the two previous posts.

It amazes me how Mother Nature has a way of speaking wellness back into us if only we will listen.  Like a the gentle ways she guides the paths of the water through her terrain, river banks and streams, she is capable of showing us how to live in harmony with the laws of life. 

So often we choose to spend a great amount of time harming and damaging ourselves, trying to break out of her laws of life, like the waters that over run her pathways flooding over everything along the way.

But like the water ways whose water flow is lessened and some of the water evaporates into the sky,  we too dry out, we become less vibrant and more decayed. If we listen to Mother Nature and follow her laws of life we can become vibrant once more as do the streams and rivers when she returns their evaporated water back to them in the form of rain.

Today, I spent time listening to the water as it spilled over the rocks.  To the birds in the tall grass and bushes around me singing their songs, full of joy and energy.  I spent time eating slowly to the rhythm that surrounded me in the life forces of Mother Nature.

God in all His Wisdom, gave us everything we need for great health and ultimate wellness in His gift of Mother Nature.  We have only to listen, learn and live.

Do you suppose that Mother Nature grows Doritos, veggie meat, macaroni, tomato sauce, pizza, burritos, fast food, frozen dinners, baked sweets etc.?  We do so much damage to her perfected gifts of raw fruits and raw vegetables and then we wonder why we get illnesses and disease.  We have literally been marketed to death by greedy corporations.

I say we all give those greedy corporations, who are spending billions to brain wash us all into believing that their illness and disease causing foods are worth eating, THE FINGER! and go back to eating the life giving foods that Mother Nature provides. 

Wouldn't that be something!  Greedy corporations would go out of business and the local, hardworking farmers would begin to thrive and feed the people what their were meant to eat.  Talk about "Making America Great!"  Healthy, wealthy and wise in the realm of ultimate wellness.  Wooopwooop!!! I'm in....are you!

Modified guidlines for my Journey

The Natural Weight-Loss System

... In a Nutshell ...

Ø  Change to The Ideal Diet, ideally avoiding all cooked food

Ø  Minimize sweet fruits

Ø  Minimize dried fruits

Ø  Emphasize vegetables

Ø  Minimize nuts and seeds, and eat them early in the day

Ø  Minimize avocados, or eliminate them altogether for a while

Ø  Eat only 2 meals a day, if that feels comfortable

Ø  If eating 3 meals a day, make your breakfast of fruit; and take vegetable salads for lunch and dinner

Ø  Take your meals at regularly scheduled hours: establish a routine that your body can adjust to and thrive on

Ø  Avoid all snacking between meals

Ø  Take the evening meal no later than 6:00 pm

Ø  Eat monomeals occasionally

Ø  Fast for one full 24-hour period each week

Ø  Once a month if it is possible, fast for one full 3-day period, on a weekend when you can rest

Ø  Follow the Ideal-Juice Diet for 1-10 days on lower calorie fruit and vegetable juices, taken sparingly and always freshly made

Ø  Dine only if you are in Emotional Balance

Ø  Practice “The Get-Well Slow-Down Behaviors” with every meal

Ø  Keep a food journal and a “personal thoughts” diary to become more aware of your eating habits and motivations for overeating

Ø  Exercise regularly; and include stretching, aerobics, and weight-training to the extent you are capable.  Emphasize aerobics to increase calorie output

Ø  Exercise instead of having breakfast or lunch or dinner

Ø  WHEN TIRED, THEN TAKE TIME TO REST! DO NOT EAT FOR STIMULATION!! THIS COULD BE YOUR GREATEST DOWNFALL!!!

Ø  Join a support group that does not base its program on The SAD Diet.  Overeaters Anonymous, Natural Hygiene Support Groups, and some church groups may be of great use

Ø  Create a support system of family members and friends

Ø  PRACTICE ALL “THE ENERGY ENHANCERS” AND AVOID ALL “THE ENERGY ROBBERS”!!!

Ø  Study and restudy Hygienic material concerning “The Natural Weight-Loss System.”  Refer to it daily until it becomes part of your daily practice.

Interview with the Mindset Guru

Woohoo!  It's finally completed and I'm excited to share the insights with each of you!

Enjoy!

Personal Affirmation Moments

Interview with the Mindest Guru

I posted that I would have a live interview with the Mindset Guru by today.

However, due to my low tech solutions I am having technical difficulty at this time.

I'm working fast and furious to resolve the issues to post the interview soon.

Thank you for your patience.  

The Power of Positive

It is no great secret and no great news to announce that the power of the mind to effect awesome changes in the body is a commonplace reality.  Many researchers these days are, in fact, pointing to the studies that clearly suggest that the body gets sick on the mental/emotional plane before it gets sick on the physical plane.

The "self-talk" everyone grows up with is so negative!  It is appalling!  How can we run with our gears in "positive" or "forward" when the stick shift is firmly set in "negative" or "backward"? 

The Affirmation Antidote declares that it is time to get rid of that negative, never-stopping, self-deprecating, self-defeating, self-hating "self-talk"

It is time to talk to ourselves with kindness and health and loving words.  It is time for joy and beauty and sweetness , time to stop the addiction and the suffering, time to embrace all that is good  and wholesome.

The Health Seeker is wholeheartedly encouraged to speak aloud the affirmative statements, to write them out, to sing them forth, to listen to them on a tape recorder, and/or to watch and hear them on a video.  AFFIRM!  AFFIRM!!  AFFIRM!!!  To override the hundreds of thousands of negative statements you have spoken to yourself over the years and to replace them with "positive self-talk."

1.   I am entering into perfect health and fitness
2.   I am going to rely on my immune system which is strong and powerful
3.   I am kind and I love people
4.   I enjoy The Ideal Diet and I choose to follow it
5.   I am getting the rest and sleep I need
6.   I enjoy being attractive and healthy
7.   I am changing my compulsive personality
8.   I am trusting in God and handing over to God all my broken pieces
9.   I am letting go of the hurt and pain and to forgiving all that caused the hurt and pain
10. I believe in the universal laws of Physiology and the wonders of the human body
11. I am loved
12. I am fun
13. I am playful
14. I am valuable
15. I am capable
16. I am good enough
17. I accept myself
18. I love myself
19. I am proud of myself
20. I have nothing to prove
21. I have nothing to hide
22. I believe that it matters NOT what other people think or believe...this is MY life...MY choice
23. I enjoy living in harmony with God, His Universe and His Family
24. I enjoy helping and serving others
25. I love and adore my children Megan, Chad and Molli
26. I love and cherish my husband Stewart
27. I love and appreciate my parents Robert and Sylvia
28. I love and celebrate all my friends, associates and colleagues

The Complete Fast

I am on day 5 and it seems I have a ways to go yet.

Signs of the Complete Fast

1. A bright, clear tongue (the once heavily-coated tongue becomes clean and pink)
2. Sweet breath, a fresh clean-tasting tongue
3. Normalized temperature
4. Normalized pulse rate
5. Normalized skin reactions
6. Return of normal saliva flow
7. A clear, light, odorless urine flow
8. Odorless excreta
9. Disappearance of acute symptoms of detoxification
10. Resumption of normal pink color under the fingernails
11. Increased rapidity with which blood flows back into the skin when forced out by pressure
12. Disappearance of unpleasant body odor
13. Bright, clear eyes that sparkle
14. Renewed strength and vigor
15. A feeling of joy and well-being

1. My tongue is not yet bright and clear.  It is still heavily-coated.  Grrrr!
2. My tongue tastes like it is still coated definitely not fresh and clean yet
3. Temperature is more normal and I no longer get hot flashes (yay me!)
4. My pulse rate seems to have slowed down and is closer to the 60 I was used to in my younger years
5. Skin reactions have a little ways to go 
6. My saliva flow seems to be fine
7. My urine is much better and is a light and clear color no longer cloudy
8. Not sure about the excreta being odorless as of yet 
9. I'm not in the clear from detox symptoms as I still have ringing in the ears
10. Fingernails seem healthy
11. Not sure about the blood flow as I have not tested that one yet
12. I still have to wear deodorant or my underarms get smelly
13. Eyes are not yet clear, they still have yellow streaks through the center going from left to right
14. I do feel increased vigor and much less lethargy
15. I am still yo-yoing between feeling of irritation and feelings of well-being

II. The Law of Order:

Good Morning,

On this new day I was re-reading the natural laws of physiology and spent some time on the second law.  The law of order.  I just wanted to share these thoughts with you as this is a very compelling reason to continue my 7 day Fast. I'm thinking that it might even need to continue into a 14 day fast.

The Law of Order:  The living organism is Completely self-constructing, self-maintaining, self-directing, self-repairing, self-defending, and self-healing. 

Take these sprouting micro-greens for instance.  They were simply dry seeds that were placed on top of the soil and with water added.  Then a grow light was placed above them.  They took it upon themselves to be self-constructing, self-maintaining, self-directing, self-repairing (they will grow back when cut during harvest), self-defending, and self-healing.  

Likewise, the human body is made to be the same.  No chemicals needed.  We have only to get out of the way and stop poisoning ourselves, stop overloading the body with toxins and harmful chemicals.

No matter the disease or health demise we are facing, if we will simply give the body what it needs it WILL be self-constructing, self-maintaining, self-directing, self-repairing, self defending and self-healing!

Reference: https://nulishcopbc.blogspot.com/p/what-are-natural-physiological-laws-of.html

7 Day Fast

Day 3 and I'm feeling the positive effects already!

It is my experience so far that this statement

by Benjamin Franklin 

is 100% accurate for me so far!

As far as these claims go, 1, 3, 5 and 6 have been realized already!  I'm excited to see if the rest ring true in my life.  

I wish you all a wonderful evening and

a spring-in-your-step morning tomorrow! 

Good Day Mates

Today was a catch up on sleep day for me as I was up all day yesterday and then worked all night last night.

I would already be back at work again tonight, however I was pushed back until 11pm.  The best part about that fact is I was able to create this yummy plate for my "breakfast" tonight.

On a nest of sprouts I place 3 sunny side up eggs.  I sprinkled turmeric, cayenne pepper, black pepper ground with papaya seeds and garlic.  Topped with mini cucumbers and garnished with wheatgrass and edible flowers.  

The great best news about this is the fact that my sprouts have now come to an end so starting tomorrow when I awake I will once again begin my 7 day fast.  Woopwoop!

But for tonight, I feast!  YUM!

Cabbage Tacos for Dinner

Wow.  This was fun to create and it tastes really good.

Pate'
Artichoke hearts washed
Avocado
Sunflower seeds
1/4 tsp cold pressed olive oil
water

Nest of sprouts
Avocado
Organic Tomato

Cabbage leafs for the taco shell

Place bits of everything in a cabbage leaf, hold like a taco and eat!  YUM!

Ahhh Breakfast!

Ok, so it was great to have the opportunity to get creative this morning for breakfast.  And since I wasn't feeling starving I was able to think about all those food combining rules and about the fact that I'm needing to boost my iron and vitamin C intake along with digestive enzymes to help assimilate everything I'm eating and yadda yadda yadda.

So without further ado, this is what I created!

First I made a nest of sprouts (I'm needing to finish those off). 
Then I cut a new papaya, peeled it for convenience of eating everything on this plate with chopsticks (my favorite dining utinsils)
Then I filled each half with blueberries and raspberries.
Next I used the rest of the raisin sauce grapes and papaya chunks from yesterday
Added the banana on the top
Sliced the lemons, twisted them and utilized the raspberries for fun
Finally I picked three of my edible flowers and completed the look.

Super yummy and chalked full of:
Fiber
Digestive Enzymes
Antioxidants
Phytonutrients
Omega 3 and 6 in a ratio of 4:1 (that's 4 omega 3 to 1 omega 6)
Vitamin C
Vitamin A
Vitamin D
Beta Carotene
Vitamin B Family
Vitamin K
Vitamin E
Amino Acids including Arginine, Glycine and Glutamine  (amino acids are what protein gets broken down into)
Iron
Magnesium
Calcium
Potassium
Phosphorus
Selenium
Zinc

And soooooooooooooo much more!

Don't believe me?  Do a google search for each raw food on my plate and look up the nutrition facts for each.  It will astound you!

No supplements needed here!

Quite something to Ponder!

Woohoo.  Good morning!,

Since I had the night off last night, I went to sleep at about 11pm and awoke this morning at 9am.  I guess I needed some sleep eh?!

This morning already, I took care of some business online, chatted with my son a bit, scheduled to have my hair cut today and took the dog out for a jaunt. Now I'm ready for breakfast.  However, it is noteworthy to say that I am not starving at all.  I'm still very satisfied, but NOT "bloated full" or even the normal "full" I'm used to feeling from eating too much.  Neither am I super hungry at all or feeling like I haven't eaten in over 12 hours.  I must admit it is the oddest thing I've ever experienced.

The only thing I can rationalize in my mind is that I must have actually "fed" myself the nutrition my body has been asking me for.  Huh!  That's quite something to ponder.

I'm off to find something great for breakfast!  See you all soon!

A NEW Full

Aloha Everyone,

For my breakfast I posted that I ate a papaya, grapes and raisins.  I expected that I would be rather hungry within 2 - 3 hours. NOT SO!

In fact, my body never asked for anything else all afternoon.  I am only now, 7 hours later, eating and only because I am choosing to eat.  I am however, not at all feeling the "normal" hunger one feels after eating fruit.  Something in that breakfast seemed to have truly "fed" my body everything it wanted.  That is amazing to me and it's something I've never experienced before on this level.

I'm totally fascinated!

For dinner now I am having a mound of sprouts topped with parsley, tomato, avocado and sprinkled with a bit of salt and pepper.  Spears of cucumbers on the sides for garnish and added nibbles.  (gotta eat those sprouts so I can get back to my 7 day fast)

Until tomorrow, sleep tight everyone and don't let those bedbugs bite! 

See you all in the morning!

Good morning..(my morning)

Breakfast Menu

Excellent source of Iron
Excellent source of Omega 3
Excellent source of Amino Acids
Excellent source of Vitamins and Minerals galore
Excellent source of Arginine, glycine and glutamine
Excellent source of Antioxidants and so much more!

Supplements?  Not needed!

Breakfast to increase iron intake and assimilation

1C Raisins

4oz Pure Water

Blend together with 1/2 Papaya

Pour over fresh Organic Grapes and the other 1/2 of the Papaya cubed

Place fruit in Papaya skin and garnish

ENJOY!

Reference AAA Diet by David Klein Ph.D.

http://www.acidalkalinediet.net/

Menu for Today!

Aloha kakahiaka (good morning) family, friends and guests,

I hope you are sharing with family and friends and inviting them to sign up with their email in the right column so that the posts come directly to their email without them needing to hunt for my blog.

I'm very excited to share my findings with everyone so that if possible, it might help each of you.  If not now, then at the right time.

On my way home after work this morning, I stopped off at the grocery store and picked up a few items since I am eating until my sprouts are gone.  (not pictured are organic grapes, organic blueberries and organic raspberries)

I always smile and laugh inside when I buy raspberries because I remember all the summers weeding and harvesting our many long long rows of raspberries as a child.  I loved/hated raspberries.  Loved eating them but hated weeding them.  (Please Share this post if you remember eating those raspberries with me as a child)

Here is what's on the menu for today when I wake up.

My sprouts and wheat grass have been growing like crazy!  I have even started to sprout some avocado seeds.  I did that a year ago and they grew nicely.  However I lost them when we moved last November.  So I am restarting.  Can't wait to watch them grow.

For now, I'm excited to take a nap and rise to see what I can make with my new ingredients.

Hope everyone else slept well and that you get to start you day off in a nutrition filled way!

See you all in a few hours.

Unexpected results

The wonders of living enzymes!

Wow!  I half expected to have my feet itch or burn again since I chose to eat potatoes.  However, that is not the case at all.

In the food combining rules it is ok to combine carbohydrates and fats together as long as protein is not added.  (except in the case of the natural protein found in the vegetables)

I actually feel great!  The living enzymes in the sprouts are super helpful with digestion and apparently makes for a healthy combination to the potatoes and avocado.

I LOVE feeling great!  Hands still don't have any numbness at this time and they are not inflamed.  Feet are happy as well.  In addition, no hive breakouts on my skin anywhere tonight either.

I definitely am liking the effects of properly combining my foods. https://nulishcopbc.blogspot.com/p/correct-food-combining-principles-how.html

Happy but Sad

So today I woke up at 6am and felt great!  I even took my dog for a short walk around the neighborhood.  I haven't had the energy to do that in a while.  I've been too short of breath.

When I got back I watered all my plants and put some outside to see the sun for the day since it's shaping up to be a pretty day.

Upon completing my task of watering I realized that I had 4 jars of sprouts that will go bad before my 7 day fast is over.  So I have elected to stop the fast until I have consumed my sprouts.  This made me Happy and sad.  Happy to eat again (woopwoop) but sad because I'm feeling so much better!

My hands and feet were even happy this morning.  They were not burning at all.  I will definitely return to complete a full 7 day fast as soon as I'm finished eating my sprouts.


Here's what's on the menu for today

Official Launch: My 7 day Hygienic Fast

Aloha and Mahalo for following my blog.

Today marks the official beginning of my illness reversal.  I'm so excited to feel better and have more energy.  Not to mention lose some major poundage.  So here goes my launch.  To begin my journey back into great health I have chosen to start with a 7 day fast.   The pictures below I took today as I started my new journey:  How to get well and stay well.

So Sunday beginning at 9 am I started a 7 day fast where the only thing I take into my body is water and a green juice tonic. Fasting is a way to allow your body a chance to rest from all the digestion workload we give it everyday.  It also allows it to catch up with the emission of all the toxins we put in our body as well.

Because some of the most annoying symptoms I've been dealing with have been the irritated skin, itching and burning in my feet and hands and the numbness on the outside edge of each hand, it seemed a simple thing understand that there must be a base line of elevated inflammation through out my body.

Fasting is a great way to reduce the inflammation by allowing the body time to rest from added toxins due to the food and drink we take in, as well as from the toxic waste produced during digestion.   It is for this reason that I have chosen to undergo a 7 day fast.  By this I mean, no food or drinks other than filtered distilled water and 1 shot glass of juiced wheat grass with a bit of cabbage, chard and pineapple per day.

During the first 24 hours I was still feeling the inflammation, the itching, burning and numbness.  But now I'm at the 40 hour mark and already the numbness in my hands is gone. That's pretty significant!  I'm really liking that!


***A word of caution for my readers.  If you are taking medications of any kind, please consult your physician before choosing to fast as it may be contraindicated by your medications.  

Reference: https://nulishcopbc.blogspot.com/p/fasting-vs-starving.html

The Importance of Pure Water

Note that the body is 72% water.  Water is the most abundant nutrient found in the human body.  The average person holds about 44 quarts of water in his body.  He takes in and loses about 3 quarts a day.  Water is continually being lost through the kidneys, bowels, lungs and skin; And water must be continually replenished.  Replenishment takes place 3 ways: through the fluids we drink, through the foods we eat, and through the body's own internal oxidation processes at the cellular level where the hydrogen in the nutrients assimilated is combined with the inhaled oxygen.

Because water is such a widely used nutrient in the body, the quality of the water we take in is all-important.  Water is the body's transport medium for nutrients and waste.  Water is the medium that keeps all the issues soft and permeable.  Water serves to regulate body temperature.  Water holds all the mineral electrolytes in solution. Water is the medium for all cellular reproduction.  In the bodily, watery medium is where all the biochemical, neurophysiological, musculoskeletal process for optimum health take place. 

Because water is so important to the proper functioning of all systems of the body, we want to provide our bodies with the very most ideal conditions possible for these processes to take place normally - by drinking only pure filtered and then distilled water when we do drink.

Reference The Health Seekers' YearBook by Victoria BidWell